Richard Dilks, who heads up Friends of the Tall Pines, is organizing opposition to the development plan on what was Prickett’s Nursery.

“Many of those homes would back up right to the very border of the park,” Dilks told KYW Newsradio. “We feel that this is just an inappropriate development, particularly in terms of how it would affect our new state park here in Gloucester County.”

Current zoning in the area would allow for three acre lots, while Dilks says the proposal would put some homes within 20 feet of each other.

Dilks says he’d would just as soon see the parcel remain as a nursery but “If it had to be developed, I would want a much smaller development with a much lighter footprint and a lot of buffer between the park and where any development would be.”